Ireland's High Court on Wednesday asked the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to review European Union data protection rules in light of allegations that Facebook shared data from EU users with the U.S. National Security Agency. But it said it would not be able to force the country's data protection commissioner, Facebook's regulator in Europe, to investigate the allegations. Austrian student group europe-v-facebook, had demanded an investigation into allegations that companies including Apple and Facebook help the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) harvest email and other private data from European citizens. Fugitive U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden last year revealed that the NSA used Web companies including Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft to gather user data as part of a mass electronic surveillance programme known as Prism.
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